Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos dished on some fishy parenting business on Thursday’s Live with Kelly and Mark.
While on the topic of a “megalodon goldfish” being unearthed in a Pennsylvania waterway earlier this week, Consuelos noted that they’ve “had a couple goldfish in [their] family.”
Ripa explained, “Our son, who shall remain nameless — Joaquin — had a thing that every time he went to the fair, the first thing he would do is win a goldfish. It never failed.”
Despite the carnival games being “impossible to do,” Ripa said their youngest son would somehow always win them.
“You know where you gotta bounce the ball into the goldfish thing?” she continued. “He had an ability to win goldfish in a way that was — it was just like the freakiest thing. He could just bounce, and boom, goldfish.”
However, that meant Ripa “would spend the night carrying a goldfish in the bag, thinking, ‘This goldfish will never make it through the rest of this fair.’” She was often proven wrong.
“Well, let me tell you about those carnival goldfish,” she added. “They are made from some other stuff. We should all study what that enzyme is that keeps them alive and we should ingest that because nothing can kill a carnival goldfish.”
Ripa said that they would “bring these goldfish into [their] lives, and they would live and grow.”
Consuelos recalled that they would “get a bowl and get a filter,” though he confessed, “But a couple times we had to uhh —”
“Swap them out,” Ripa revealed, as Consuelos reiterated, “Swap them out. While he was at school.”
“A couple of times they passed away, and then we would replace them with similar fish,” Ripa explained. “I don’t think he ever knew.”
Consuelos teased that “he knows now,” but he and Ripa concluded that “he doesn’t watch this show.”
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